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[Hook] Pharoahe's official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Greene Authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend From my intricate ways to shake your whole team Official, Starter hit harder than Fort Greene No authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend For my intricate ways to break your whole team [Verse 1] My style makes the crowd say, "Ow!" Like number 55 on the Chargers I promise thee, I dodge a nigga like Raul Mondesi Sombrely stay calm, by any means like Natrone The bomb like Hail Mary's inflated with napalm Rap please us, deliver scriptures similar to Jesus That you couldn't catch if you was Ivan Rodriguez So don't compete within the zone where the mind enters I'm on the phone in the luxury box like George Steinbrenner The owner, making you give your diamond back like Arizona Winning, always Indian like Chief Noc-A-Homa Sock a nigga in his face, Pharoahe's a sporting authority Blacks attracted to my rap like dames to sororities You already fucked up when you stepped up to bat Strike (one), strike (two), strike (three), that's that [Hook] Pharoahe's official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Greene Authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend From my intricate ways to shake your whole team Official, Starter hit harder than Fort Greene No authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend For my intricate ways to break your whole team [Verse 2] Yo, the realness stuck, females 'blauch' my knob like Chuck Dispense the eight count Commence to rebound like Buck Williams Triple Crown threat to score, plus the bonus strange Without the Rover, more range than Rey Ordonez One of the MC's, flip my kind of grammar on the break Three on one like Phi Slamma Jamma Serve a slot, a curve-splitter-knuckleball-spitter-change Every bitter rhyme hit a note, quote, "Get a game" Not Allen Iverson, forget crossing over, shake men Similar to Troy, I bring the pain destined to ache men Break men off, take men out, make me wanna slander Prime Time, my rhyme defense beyond Deion Sanders I walk the earth with my rod in this strick land Promise, people thought I was Thomas Hearns the way I hit, man [Hook] Pharoahe's official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Greene Authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend From my intricate ways to shake your whole team Official, Starter hit harder than Fort Greene No authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend For my intricate ways to break your whole team Official [Bridge] Yeah, yeah, come on, come on It's Lee Stone, Pharoahe Monch for real With the official hip-hop to kill Know what's the deal, come on, check it Yo, yo, yo [Hook] Pharoahe's official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Greene Authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend From my intricate ways to-to-to-to, yo, yo Official, Starter hit harder than Fort Greene No authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend For my intricate ways to-to-to-to [Verse 3] Yo, I stick around like hockey, now what the puck? Cooler than fuck, maneuver like Vancouver Canucks In your speaker, destroy your woofer, mids and tweeters Not Wolverine but still I holds claws like Chamique Waterboys get slaughtered automatic like Bobby Boucher Push your wig back like Marv Albert's toupee Blaze a trail like Portland on a track that'll amaze ya Omnipotent on the D like Clyde Frazier Slide, phase ya, glide get off the, uh I'm coming with the *scatting*